ppl. a. [f. WEIGHT v. + -ED1.]
1. † a. Of one’s mind or spirit: Overburdened, oppressed. Obs.
1660. [see WEIGHTEDNESS (below)].
a. 1732. T. Boston, Crook in Lot (1805), 168. Their weighted and sorrowful life will be succeeded with a fulness of joy.
b. Burdened with a heavy weight; loaded. Of the eyelids: Heavy with sleep.
1895. S. Crane, Red Badge, xiii. His head fell forward … and his weighted lids went softly down over his eyes.
1905. ‘J. Oxenham,’ White Fire, xiii. 131. Their weighted progress was slow.
2. Furnished with a heavy substance to give additional weight.
1827. Faraday, Chem. Manip., xv. (1842), 360. When filled and covered with a weighted board, they [sc. the bladders] will supply a constant stream of gas.
1839. Ure, Dict. Arts, etc., 1286. The warp and web are kept longitudinally stretched by a weighted cord.
1872. Abridgm. Specif. Patents, Raising, etc. (ed. 2), 182. A stationary rod, on which is mounted a weighted lever.
b. fig. Of words, etc.: Made weighty.
1879. L. S. Bevington, in 19th Cent., Oct., 596. Supposing Mr. Mallock’s argument to be, as it seems to me, that of a special pleader who uses weighted words even in preparing to open his discussion.
1914. D. Macmillan, Life Robert Flint, xii. 344. Its objectivity is equally evident, if one compares it, say, with the more subjectively weighted definings of the late Professor Bowne, of Boston, in his philosophy of theism.
c. Weighted average, an average in taking which each component is multiplied by a factor chosen to give it its proper importance.
1901. A. L. Bowley, Elem. Statist., 111.
Hence Weightedness, the condition of being weighted.
1660. J. Durham, Expos. Rev. v. i. 284. Secondly, There is a disappointment, vers. 3. Thirdly, There is John’s exceeding great heavinesse and weightednesse therewith, vers. 4.
